More than 400 Attendees, Presenters, Exhibitors and Sponsors made their way to sunny Downtown Los Angeles to attend the SCMA Annual Fall Conference on October 22-23, 2017 at the LA Hotel Downtown. The theme of the 2017 Conference was “Mediation in the Real World: New Thinking, New Practices.”

Our Friday Evening Reception Dinner kicked off with award presentations to Mary Culbert and Marco Turk. Which led us into a full day Saturday starting off with Keynote Speaker and 2017 Cloke-Millen Peacemaker of the Year Award Recipient, William Ury, cofounder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation. Mr. Ury’s Keynote Speech can be found here (link).

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